As you all know, the vote for PA, SV and EB groups was held in November 2010. This event was hotly disputed and was made under an abuse of authority by the representatives of PSAC.

Several members of the three concerned groups have received the content of the agreement in principle by email. Right from the start, when members asked questions, they were misinformed, intimidated and even threatened that they could lose everything, even their job, if they wouldn’t accept this agreement in principle between PSAC and Treasury Board. None of their questions were answered clearly by the union representatives. Personally, I have received an email from our president, Mr. John Gordon, on November 3rd, and even he could not give me a clear explanation.

In the beginning of August, the TB suggested to PSAC to start negotiating earlier than previously planned. The union had accepted because it allowed them to be in touch with the pulse of the government employees. From the beginning, the employer was fair and square. Since the beginning of the negotiations, all those who were sitting at the table knew the impact of these decisions on the members. However, they never decided to withdraw from the negotiation table and consult their members to see if they were ready to see their severance pay disappear, which, incidentally, is effective since 1960. Most likely, there were people in the 50s who have strongly fought to get the severance pay. At no time did the union decide to be in touch with the pulse of its members and let them know about the issue that was discussed at the negotiation table, namely the monetary loss for the 95,000 members, which corresponds to $10,000 (and more)/each in the next 10 to 12 years, when they decide to retire from public service.

According to Mr. John Gordon, the national president of PSAC, the matter was discussed with the Alliance Executive Committee (AEC) and the National Board of Directors (NBD), but we, the concerned members, have never been consulted. They have decided that it would be better to accept this negotiation process and protect the security of their members. He said that it is in the interest of the members that they have decided to accept the agreement in principle made by the employer. They have had the time to consult each other, but no time to consult the members and inform them about what the Treasury Board wanted absolutely to see disappear. They have had ample time, because negotiations started in the beginning of August and the collective agreement comes to an end only on June 21st, 2011. In this hostile atmosphere between the stakeholders, they should have simply left the table and ended the negotiations that resulted in such enormous losses for their members.

Mr. John Gordon says in the email he sent to me: “it is a fact that the agreements were obtained at a high cost. The severance pay is a “stash” or a “reward” for many years of services. The raise of 5.3% and 2 additional days in case of mortality and 1 extra family day is more than the amount of the severance pay.” This is totally wrong, because this agreement is only for 3 years and we all know that the annual rise in the cost of living is higher than this percentage. And we know that once we open the door this way and we let go of one earned item, in three years, the employer will come back and get our sick leave and could even dip into our pension fund…. The door is wide open now.

Here now are the real reasons why the PSAC negotiation teams for PA, SV and EB groups recommended to their members to accept the agreement in principle:

The employer agreed to grant the amount of $8,750,000 to fund a Joint Learning Program (JLP) from June 21st, 2011 to June 20th, 2014. The employer also agreed to grant $600,000 for the duration of the PA collective agreement between 2011 and 2014, which will be specifically used to encourage the participation of bargaining agents, other than PSAC, at the PSAC-TBS JLP. The employer also agreed to grant $292,000 per month at the PSAC-TBS JLP starting on June 21st, 2014 until the signature of the next collective agreement for the PA group to ensure that this initiative continues. Thus, I believe that as a member, we can draw an inference.

The negotiation committee has never received the mandate to negotiate the severance pay. They have decided on their own, without informing their members of what was at stake and the opening that they had just given to the employer. From the very beginning, the union representatives have showed a lack of respect towards their members. It is false to pretend that we could get the severance pay back in the coming years, because we all know that once we lose something earned in the past, we can’t get it back.

Mr. John Gordon, national president of PSAC, is not representative of its members. He should consider the vote of 52.1% (PA group) as a bitter defeat and that the trust from its members no longer exists.

Consequently, for all these reasons of misrepresentation from the union at the negotiation table with TB :

We ask for the cancellation of this agreement in principle between PSAC and TB. This is because the union representatives showed a lack of respect towards their members, as well as intimidating and threatening some members. Also, they have freely negotiated the severance pay without receiving a clear mandate from their members asking them to do so and have deliberately hidden what was really at stake on the negotiation table. Finally, they have lied to their members when they said they were negotiating in good faith and in their best interests.

The goal of this petition is to give power to the members of the three following groups: PA, SV and EB, to be heard and to cancel the agreement in principle made between PSAC and TBA. Also, to make sure that no signature will be submitted by the stakeholders, as planned at the end of February 2011, given that AEC, NBD and the union representatives had never received the mandate from their members to re-negotiate the severance pay

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